Auditory verbal skills training is a new approach in adult cochlear implant rehabilitation.

CONCLUSIONS: The AVST was successfully implemented at the CI Centre. Improvements in speech understanding and QoL were seen in both groups over time, but no differences were seen between the groups. The CI users in the intervention group received more fine-tuning of their processor. FUNDING: Oticon Medical A/S supported the study financially. TRIAL REGISTRATION: Not relevant as the study applied a prospective method study design. PMID: 30864546 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Danish Medical Journal - Category: General Medicine Tags: Dan Med J Source Type: research